Office of Councilman Patrick Dowd — August
2011
LETTER FROM COUNCILMAN DOWD
Dear friends in District 7,
Pittsburgh City Council recently voted 6-3 to pass Bill
2011-1939 which would authorize a referendum amending the Home Rule Charter. I
was one of three council members who voted against it.
Please know that a ban on drilling in the city is already in place and even if
successful this referendum would provide no additional protection for our
citizens or our environment. As a community, we are better off channeling our
energies and resources adding multiple layers of protection instead of more of
the same. These additional layers would include a zoning code amendment and a
noise ordinance as well as working with municipal authorities up-river
encouraging them to refuse even initiating processes that would allow them to
accept contaminated wastewater. I am working on these bills and hope to bring
them to a vote this year.
While this was marketed as a Marcellus shale drilling ban, there was a lot of
additional language
denying the legitimacy of state or federal laws as well as rights guaranteed
under the
I supported the drilling ban back in November as an interim step while we
established other layers of protection. Our goal should be to add more layers
of protection for citizens and the environment and not to be satisfied with the
thin layer of the ban.
Sincerely,
To read the legislation in its entirety
please go to the City of
NEWS AND UPDATES
Today is National Night Out
Tuesday, August 2 marks the 28th Annual National
Night Out, an annual celebration held around the country to raise
awareness around issues of community building and crime prevention. There
will be a cookout in Lawrenceville, sponsored by Lawrenceville United, from 5pm-7pm at the intersection of
McCandless and Natrona in the 10th Ward and Mellon's
Orchard Neighborhood Association (MONA) will recognize National
Night Out from 7pm-10pm on
Heth’s Run Cleanup a Success
On July 5-8, Allegheny CleanWays and the Office of
Councilman Patrick Dowd, along with other local service organizations, led
approximately 200 volunteers from the Mennonite Church USA Convention in a
large clean-up effort in Heth’s Run. The Run, stretching from
Heth’s
To learn more about Allegheny CleanWays, please visit their website. To see
some photos of the clean-up effort, check out the City Council District 7 Facebook page!
For
special note, City Council will
be on recess and not meeting from August 2rd through August 26th. The
District 7 office will have limited phone and office hours. Please leave a
message in the event that we cannot directly answer your call and we will
return it promptly
UPCOMING
EVENTS AND MEETINGS
Council to Go
Join Councilman Patrick
Dowd at Council to Go,
his mobile district office, to voice your concerns, ideas, and questions about
local government and services.
Lawrenceville — Friday, August 26,
7:30am - 9am – Perk Me Up,
Morningside — Thursday, August 25,
7:00pm – 8:00pm – Representative Dom Costa’s
Office,
Community
Events
Fridays through
August 26, 2011, 7:30-10pm – Free Movies in Arsenal
Park @ Dusk, Lawrenceville
Saturdays through
October 29, 2011, 9:30am-1pm – Lawrenceville
Farmers Market, Lawrenceville – 52 Street &
Sundays, August 7-
28, 2011, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. – Reservoir
of Jazz,
Sundays, August 7-
28, 2011, 7:00 p.m. (right after Reservoir of
Jazz) – Summer
Soul Line Dancing,
Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 7:00 p.m- 9:00 p.m. –
Zone 5 Citizen’s Public Safety Council,
August 12-21, Bike Pittsburgh’s Bike Fest
2011, various times and locations
If
you know of any free community-oriented events in your District 7 neighborhood that we should publicize through our monthly newsletter
and District 7 website, please email Jennifer.thoma@city.pittsburgh.pa.us by the
1st of each month.
DID YOU KNOW?
If you weren’t already aware, Councilman Dowd is a huge baseball
fan and 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of a
The two teams proved to be evenly matched, as the Series
went the full seven games, with the Pirates' Steve Blass
pitching a complete game four-hitter in winning Game 7, 2–1, against Mike Cuellar
and the Orioles.
The Pirates' Roberto Clemente,
who turned into a one-man gang in the Series, became the first Latino player to
earn World Series MVP honors. Clemente hit safely in all seven games of the 1960 World
Series and all seven games of the 1971 World Series. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_World_Series)
2011 also marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Pittsburgh Pirates (they were founded as the Pittsburgh Alleghenys). View a 125th anniversary video here.
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JENNIFER THOMA | Administrative and
Communications Director
Office of Councilman Patrick Dowd |
Pittsburgh City Council District 7
Tel 412.255.2140 | Fax 412.255.2419
jennifer.thoma@city.pittsburgh.pa.us
District
7 Schedule of Events Google Calendar |
2010
Annual Report [pdf]